"short lived. In cold conditions puddles can form patches of ice which are slippery and difficult to see and can be a hazard to road vehicles and pedestrians. Puddles are a source of recreation for children, who often like jumping in puddles as an ""up-side"" to rain. A children's nursery rhyme records the story of Doctor Foster and his encounter with a puddle in Gloucester. Muddy puddles, and the pleasures of splashing mud in them, are a repeated theme in the children's animation Peppa Pig, to the extent of selling character-branded wellington boots. It has been fashionable for millennia, and"
"Gloucester became ill with convulsions when he was three weeks old, so his mother moved him into Craven House, Kensington, hoping that the air from the surrounding gravel pits would have a beneficial effect on his health. His convulsions were possibly symptomatic of meningitis, likely contracted at birth and which resulted in hydrocephalus. As was usual among royalty, Gloucester was placed in the care of a governess, Lady Fitzhardinge, and was suckled by a wet nurse, Mrs. Pack, rather than his mother. As part of his treatment, Gloucester was driven outside every day in a small open carriage, pulled by"
"Rain Rain Go Away ""Rain Rain Go Away"" is a popular English language nursery rhyme. It has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 19096. There are few versions and variations of this rhyming couplet. The most common modern version is: Similar rhymes can be found in many societies, including ancient Greece. The modern English language rhyme can be dated to at least to the 17th century when James Howell in his collection of proverbs noted: A version very similar to the modern version was noted by John Aubrey in 1687 as used by ""little children"" to ""charme away the"
"into the storm. Gloucester tries to assist the King, despite being forbidden to by Regan and Cornwall. Edmund betrays his father, to inherit sooner. Regan and Cornwall interrogate Gloucester, and Cornwall gouges out Gloucester's eyes, before being killed by a horrified servant. Lear is raving in the storm with Kent and the Fool, his sanity gone. They are joined by Edgar, pretending to be mad. Edgar meets his blinded father. Grieved and shocked, he maintains his disguise but stays with his father and manages to save him from suicide. Goneril and Regan both fall in love with Edmund and become"
"off his horse into a puddle, and refusing to return to the city thereafter. There is a rhyme published in ""Gamer Gurton's Garland"" (1810) with a similar form: This variant and the late date of recording suggest that the medieval meaning is unlikely. Two other explanations have been proposed. 1. That Doctor Foster was an emissary of William Laud, Archbishop of Canterbury, who visited Gloucester with instructions that all communion tables should be placed at the east end of the church instead of their post-Reformation or Puritan position in the centre of the chancel: but that he had not been"
"Doctor Foster ""Doctor Foster"" is an English language nursery rhyme that has appeared in many anthologies since the nineteenth century. It has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 19288. The rhyme was first published in its modern form in 1844, although the rhyming of 'puddle' with 'middle' suggests that it may have originally been the archaic 'piddle' for a stream and that the verse may therefore be much older. The first recorded text was: It was suggested by Boyd Smith (1920) that the rhyme may be based on a story of Edward I of England travelling to Gloucester, falling"
"Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came ""Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came"" is a poem by English author Robert Browning, written in 1855 and first published that same year in the collection titled ""Men and Women"". The title, ""Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came"", which forms the last words of the poem, is a line from William Shakespeare's play ""King Lear"" (""ca."" 1607). In the play, Gloucester's son, Edgar, lends credence to his disguise as Tom o' Bedlam by talking nonsense, of which this is a part: Child Rowland to the dark tower came,His word was still"
"Mrs. Pack Mrs. Pack (died 1694) was a wet nurse to the infant William, Duke of Gloucester (1689–1700); she was believed indispensable to the boy's health, and because of that, came to exercise considerable control over the household of his mother, the future Queen Anne. She has been called a forerunner of the British nanny. After the Glorious Revolution of 1688, which deposed King James II of England/James VII of Scotland, Mary II of England came to the throne with her husband William III. The couple was childless. Her younger sister, Princess Anne, had repeatedly attempted to have children, but"
"the 2011 BBC television miniseries ""South Riding"", schoolmistress Sarah Burton (played by Anna Maxwell Martin) quotes ""Westron Wynde"", telling her favourite student that, though it was written 400 years ago, it still sounds modern. In Walter Tevis's dystopian science fiction novel Mockingbird, the poem is quoted frequently by the main character as he learns what true love is and is pining for his lover. The poem is quoted in Madeleine L'Engle's book ""The Small Rain"" (1945) The text is recited by the madman Humble Jewett in Wilbur Daniel Steele's short story ""How Beautiful with Shoes"". Virginia Woolf used the poem"
"of Caerlaverock. The ""Caerlaverock Roll"", a poetic description of all the lords and knights present, refers to him thus (as translated from the original French): <poem> He by whom they were well supported, Who brought to success the love, After great doubts and fears, Until it pleased God he should be relieved, For the Countess of Gloucester, For whom he long endured great sufferings. Of fine gold with three red chevrons, He had there only a banner; Yet he made no bad appearance, When he was attired in his own arms, Which were yellow with a green eagle. His name"
"The nursery rhyme is first attested in 1797, but apparently the first time the rhyme was linked to the siege was in 1996 on the East Anglia Tourist Board's website. Fairfax is also spoken of in Milton's 15th sonnet. list: Siege of Colchester The Siege of Colchester occurred in the summer of 1648 when the English Civil War reignited in several areas of Britain. Colchester found itself in the thick of the unrest when a Royalist army on its way through East Anglia to raise support for the King, was attacked by Lord-General Thomas Fairfax at the head of a"
"In the morning gleam as the tide went down, And the women are weeping and wringing their hands For those who will never come back to the town; For men must work, and women must weep, And the sooner it's over, the sooner to sleep— And good-by to the bar and its moaning. When Charles Kingsley was a boy, his father was rector of Clovelly, a small seaside parish on the coast of north Devon. Kingsley was often present when the herring fleet was put out to sea, an event often accompanied by a short religious ceremony for which the"
"to Bristol and from there to Gloucester, was placed on the walls of Llanthony Secunda and directed at Gloucester's City Wall. It was hoped by the besieging monarch, Charles I, that this cannon would break the siege and win him control of the city. The cannon misfired and exploded on the first shot. Some believe this to be the origin of the Humpty Dumpty nursery rhyme; but this is disputed. The true origins of Humpty Dumpty are unknown but the idea that it refers to the Royalist cannon during the Siege of Gloucester is often cited as fact. The remains"
"able to reach Deerhurst because the Severn was in flood. 2. That it refers to an incident in the play ""Doctor Faustus"" by Christopher Marlowe wherein he is referred to as ""Doctor Fauster"" by a person whom he caused to get wet crossing a river by conjuring a straw into a horse which changed back to the straw in the middle of the river. Doctor Foster ""Doctor Foster"" is an English language nursery rhyme that has appeared in many anthologies since the nineteenth century. It has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 19288. The rhyme was first published in"
"Lowell Mason set the nursery rhyme to a melody adding repetition in the verses: <poem> Mary had a little lamb, little lamb, little lamb Mary had a little lamb Whose fleece was white as snow. And everywhere that Mary went Mary went, Mary went, Everywhere that Mary went The lamb was sure to go. He followed her to school one day, school one day, school one day He followed her to school one day Which was against the rules. It made the children laugh and play, laugh and play, laugh and play, It made the children laugh and play, To"
"him. Gloucester protests against Lear's mistreatment. With Lear's retinue of a hundred knights dissolved, the only companions he has left are his Fool and Kent. Wandering on the heath after the storm, Edgar, in the guise of a madman named Tom o' Bedlam, meets Lear. Edgar babbles madly while Lear denounces his daughters. Kent leads them all to shelter. Edmund betrays Gloucester to Cornwall, Regan, and Goneril. He reveals evidence that his father knows of an impending French invasion designed to reinstate Lear to the throne; and in fact a French army has landed in Britain. Once Edmund leaves with"
"with London and spellings associated with the then-emergent Chancery Standard. In modern prose: When April with its sweet showers has pierced March's drought to the root, bathing every vein in such liquid by whose virtue the flower is engendered, and when Zephyrus with his sweet breath has also enlivened the tender plants in every wood and field, and the young sun is halfway through Aries, and small birds that sleep all night with an open eye make melodies (their hearts so goaded by Nature), then people long to go on pilgrimages, and palmers seek faraway shores and distant saints known"
"shell. Professor David Daube suggested in ""The Oxford Magazine"" of 16 February 1956 that Humpty Dumpty was a ""tortoise"" siege engine, an armoured frame, used unsuccessfully to approach the walls of the Parliamentary held city of Gloucester in 1643 during the Siege of Gloucester in the English Civil War. This was on the basis of a contemporary account of the attack, but without evidence that the rhyme was connected. The theory was part of an anonymous series of articles on the origin of nursery rhymes and was widely acclaimed in academia, but it was derided by others as ""ingenuity for"
"The following three lines are particularly dense with allusion: <poem> His steeds to water at those springs </poem> These phrases are explained by William Warburton (sometime Bishop of Gloucester) in a succinct paraphrase in his 1747 edition of Alexander Pope's version of Shakespeare: represented by the mythical horses which pull Phoebus' fiery chariot, ""the morning sun dries the dew which lies in the cups of flowers."" The stanza or stave of this song is one of four fourteen-syllable verses, and a refrain. Alexander Pope tampered with the division of Shakespeare's lines as they stood in the First Folio. Sir Thomas"
"1689, soon made Duke of Gloucester by his uncle and aunt, was a source of expectation and hope. With the birth of Prince William, all precautions known at that time were taken. Doctors were in constant attendance on the young royal duke. Prayers were said for him almost continuously. Nonetheless, the infant duke failed to thrive, and had convulsions. Wet nurses were commonly used in that day, especially for well-to-do women who could not (or did not want to) breast-feed their children themselves, and one was sought who might succor the young Duke of Gloucester. Three different wet nurses were"
"from Royston, Cambridgeshire, by Alexander Grosart, who produced the first modern edition of the poem. However, in 1913, Carleton Brown argued that Chester must have been closely associated with Salusbury in Denbighshire. Also, Chester's verse suggests that he was a servant of Salusbury's, rather than a social equal as was the Robert Chester from Royston. Brown discovered a manuscript poem entitled ""A Winter's Garland"", written by Chester, in the Salisbury family archives. Another poem, welcoming Salusbury home from London, compares Chester's own crude ""hoarse-throat raven's song"" to the ""court beautifying poets"" he would have heard in London. Brown concluded that"
"Goosey Goosey Gander ""Goosey Goosey Gander"" is an English-language nursery rhyme. It has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 6488. Some have suggested that this rhyme refers to priest holes—hiding places for itinerant Catholic priests during the persecutions under King Henry VIII and later under Oliver Cromwell. Once discovered the priest would be forcibly taken from the house ('thrown down the stairs') and treated badly. Amateur historian Chris Roberts suggests further that the rhyme is linked to the propaganda campaign against the Catholic Church during the reign of Henry VIII. Other interpretations exist. Mark Cocker and Richard Mabey note"
"It's Raining, It's Pouring ""It's Raining, It's Pouring"" is an English language nursery rhyme and children's song. It has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 16814. The first two lines of this rhyme can be found in ""The Little Mother Goose"", published in the US in 1912. The melody most often associated with it is the same as ""A Tisket, A Tasket"", which is in the public domain. The earliest known audio recording of the song was made in 1939 in New York by anthropologist and folklorist Herbert Halpert and is held in the Library of Congress. It was"
"Walking the Streets in the Rain Walking the Streets in the Rain (or I'm walking the Streets in the Rain, as it stands the official Eurovision web site) was the Irish entry in the Eurovision Song Contest 1965, performed in English by Butch Moore. This was Ireland's debut Contest appearance. The song is a ballad, with Moore singing about walking away from his former lover after she has ended their relationship. As he recounts his emotions at the event, he makes the comment that ""nobody knows I am crying/'Cause I'm walking the streets in the rain"". On this first participation,"
"that sunny sky: Echoes fade and memories die. Autumn frosts have slain July. Still she haunts me, phantomwise, Alice moving under skies Never seen by waking eyes. Children yet, the tale to hear, Eager eye and willing ear, Lovingly shall nestle near. In a Wonderland they lie, Dreaming as the days go by, Dreaming as the summers die: Ever drifting down the stream— Lingering in the golden gleam— Life, what is it but a dream? In addition, all of those who participated in the Thames boating expedition where the story was originally told (Carroll, the Reverend Duckworth and the three"
"Journal (1939), in which MacNeice recalls how he ""drove around Shropshire in a bijou car"" together with his first wife Mary Ezra. The second stanza, describing chalkland in summer, with beech trees and gorse, suggests the countryside close to Marlborough College, where MacNeice was a pupil. (As a schoolboy, MacNeice had indulged in ""long bicycle rides into the Wiltshire countryside"" with his close friend Graham Shepard.) In the third stanza the tone changes as the poem returns to the present and ""impending thunder"". Rain ""comes / Down like a dropscene"", and is followed by thunder - ""clouds like falling masonry"""
"The Rain Rain Rain Came Down Down Down ""The Rain Rain Rain Came Down Down Down"" is a narrative song from the Walt Disney musical film featurette, ""Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day"". The song is also incorporated into the 1977 musical film ""The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh"" which is an amalgamation of three Winnie-the-Pooh featurettes including ""Blustery Day"". The song was written by the Sherman Brothers who have written most of the music for the Winnie-the-Pooh franchise over the many years. It was sung by an unidentified off-screen chorus with occasional lines sung by veteran character"
"actor Sterling Holloway who provided the voice of Pooh. The Rain Rain Rain Came Down Down Down ""The Rain Rain Rain Came Down Down Down"" is a narrative song from the Walt Disney musical film featurette, ""Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day"". The song is also incorporated into the 1977 musical film ""The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh"" which is an amalgamation of three Winnie-the-Pooh featurettes including ""Blustery Day"". The song was written by the Sherman Brothers who have written most of the music for the Winnie-the-Pooh franchise over the many years. It was sung by an unidentified"
"incestuous relationship. Jamieson also compared the story to the ballad of ""The Merman and Marstig's Daughter,"" where a merman steals a young woman from a church. Other narratives where brothers seek a missing sister are The Old Wives' Tale and Milton's Comus. ""Childe Rowland"" is referenced briefly in ""King Lear"", by Gloucester's son, Edgar, disguised as mad Tom, in one of his mad ramblings: Robert Browning's 1855 poem ""Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came"" takes its inspiration more from Shakespeare than the fairy tale and has no real connection with the latter. Stephen King has also written about the"
"I heard them say, ""It's the royal Duke of Grantham, That the tide has washed away."" They took him up to Portsmouth, To a place where was known, From there up to London, To the place where he was born. They took out his bowels, And stretched out his feet, And they balmed his body, With roses so sweet. Six dukes stood before him, Twelve raised him from the ground, Nine lords followed after him, In their black mourning gown. Black was their mourning, And white were the wands, And so yellow were the flamboys, That they carried in their"
"four wood nymphs driven away from their woodland abodes by the cutting down of woods to supply the county's iron forges. The Downs, which have already lost much of their foliage, laugh at the grief of the wood nymphs. Sussex's rivers, which spring from the forests are represented as water nymphs, which sympathise with the wood nymphs' plight. Some writers born in Sussex include the Renaissance poet Thomas May (1594/5-1650), born in Mayfield, and playwrights Thomas Otway, born Trotton, near Midhurst, and John Fletcher (1579–1625), who was born in Rye. One of the most prolific playwrights of his day, Fletcher"
"John Schorne Sir John Schorne (died 1313) was rector of North Marston in the English county of Buckinghamshire. He was a very pious man and was said to have effected many miraculous cures for gout and toothache. During a drought, he discovered a well, whose waters were reputed to have miraculous properties. His reputation for holiness was such that he is believed to have cast the devil into a boot. He is often pictured holding a boot with a devil in it, which was thought to be the origin of the child's jack-in-the-box toy. However, the toy did not come"
"Il pleut, il pleut, bergère Il pleut, il pleut, bergère (, ""It's raining, it's raining, shepherdess"") is a French song taken from the ""opéra comique"" in one act ""Laure et Pétrarque"", written in 1780 by Fabre d'Églantine. The music was written by Louis-Victor Simon. The shepherdess to whom the song refers is the French queen Marie Antoinette who loved to play the shepherdess in the Hameau de la reine of the Palace of Versailles. The rain and the storm coming could be an allusion to the troubles that led to the French Revolution. It was sung for the creation of"